You may elect to attend this lecture by Dr. Kerr by ZOOM for the same fee. After registering online inform Rebecca Keller at [email protected] You will then be contacted by email between 8:30-9AM the day of the Lecture.

Bowen Theory and therapy are not a finished body of knowledge but an open system that is evolving based on the increased clinical experience of many clinicians around the country and overseas and, most importantly, from developments in the natural sciences. Much of the material in this conference will be taken from my new book, Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revealing the Hidden Life of Families, which will be released in early February 2019, especially in reference to the process of differentiation of self and the highly relevant concept currently of societal emotional process

Michael E. Kerr, M.D. is a family psychiatrist. He trained under and worked with Murray Bowen for more than twenty years, and then succeeded Dr. Bowen as Director of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (originally the Georgetown University Family Center) upon his death in 1990. He has been Emeritus Director of the Bowen Center since January 2011 and is now living in Maine. He continues a clinical practice, presents at conferences around the country, and writes about Bowen theory and its applications. He is co-author with Murray Bowen of, Family Evaluation, which was published in 1988 (excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly in September 1988), and is writing a second book, Bowen Theory: Defining a Self in Context. His research interests include cancer and family emotional process, the development of a unidisease concept, the relationship between human emotional process and emotional process in other species, and the process of differentiation of self. [email protected]

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Continuing Education Credits for Psychologists: Not available at this time.

The goal for this presentation is that participants will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the process of differentiation of self and the highly relevant concept currently of societal emotional process.